Cheri Mallory

Cheri Mallory
Cheri is responsible for leading product and customer marketing initiatives for Informatica’s Data Migration Solution. Cheri has worked for most of her 20+ year career as a data integration professional, delivering solutions that include data migration, data quality, single view of customer, data warehousing, and database applications. Prior to joining Informatica, Cheri was the Data Integration Solutions Manager at SAP Business Objects, where she defined solutions and actively worked on client engagements. At Business Objects she was a leader on the team that developed the SAP Data Migration Solution. She was a Strategic Consultant for FirstLogic, prior to their acquisition by Business Objects. Prior to her work at FirstLogic Cheri was the Manager of Data Quality and Data Architecture at DishNetwork.

Collaboration: The Ingredient That Makes Application Data Migration Projects Work

Recently I interviewed a consulting manager who had just delivered a very large ERP data migration.  What was his biggest challenge?  It was getting the business users engaged early in the project.  And this is a very familiar story.  I have been encountering this same challenge for years in delivering application data migrations.  And it [...]

What Do I Mean When I Say Data Migration?

Over the next few months on the Perspectives blog, I would like to address the many facets of what makes a data migration project work, what makes it successful (and what defines success, for that matter).  I am approaching this from the perspective of best practices, including processes, skills and, of course, tools.  As a [...]